Word Study
own up
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb own up has 1 sense
- own up(v = verb.communication) fess up, make a clean breast of - admit or acknowledge a wrongdoing or error; "the writer of the anonymous letter owned up after they identified his handwriting" is one way to concede, confess, profess
Sample sentence:
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THESAURUS
own up
acknowledge, admit, admit everything, allow, avow, come clean, concede, confess, cop a plea, grant, let on, open up, out with it, own, plead guilty, spill, spill it, spit it out, tell all, tell the truth
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